Coppicing - cutting off trees and shrubs to ground level - stimulates vigorous regrowth and allows more sunlight to reach the woodland floor, encouraging the flowering of many woodland plants in Spring.

Funded in part by the European Social Fund, the scheme will train 10 new entrants in the ancient art of coppicing -- whereby broadleaf greenwood trees, like Hazel, are cut back to the stump, to encourage the growth of new stems (poles) which can then be used to make products such as hurdles, furniture and thatching spars.

Other features include the Golf Pond, created as a source of water to fight forest fires, a restored 150-year-old footpath and bridge and a coppice area ( coppicing and charcoal having been carried out in the wood for centuries.

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